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which is a small round tubercle. Abdomen black, clothed with 

 black pubescence ; the basal segment has a small spot of bright 

 golden pubescence, a broad fascia of the same colour occu- 

 pies its apical margin and also the basal margin of the second 

 segment; the band is emarginate on each side, forming an 

 angle in the centre ; the third and fourth segments clothed with 

 bright golden pubescence, having a narrow longitudinal black 

 line in the centre. 



Hab. India (Madras). 



Var. #. This species varies in having the anterior band and 

 also the basal spot obsolete, not caused apparently by being 

 rubbed off. 



Var. y. The antennae ferruginous, the thorax rufo-fuscous, 

 the anterior band and spot obsolete. 



182. MUT1LLA REPR.ESENTANS. B.M. 



Female. Length 2-4 lines. Black, the extreme base and 

 apex of the scape, and the mandibles in the middle ferruginous ; 

 the flagellum obscurely red beneath. Thorax red, oblong and 

 longitudinally rugose; the legs have a cinereous pubescence, 

 the spines which arm the intermediate and posterior tibiae ex- 

 ternally are ferruginous ; the spines and also the pubescence at 

 the apex of the joints of the tarsi fulvous ; the calcaria pale 

 testaceous. Abdomen clothed with short black pubescence, 

 the second segment having two large ovate snow-white spots, 

 placed laterally; the third and fourth segments clothed with 

 snow-white pubescence, having a black longitudinal line down 

 the centre ; the lateral margins of the apical segments fringed 

 with white pubescence, as are also the margins of the segments 

 beneath. 



Hab. India. 



This species answers to the description of the M. Halensis of 

 Fabricius, but can scarcely be identical, that species being from 

 Saxony. 



183. MUTILLA RETICULATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 4i lines. Black, the head as wide as the 

 thorax, subquadrate, the posterior angles rounded. Thorax ob- 

 scurely ferruginous above, covered with large shallow octagonal 

 fossulets, forming a regular octagonal reticulation. Abdomen : 

 the apical margin of the basal segment fringed with bright yel- 

 lowish-white pubescence, the second segment has a narrow mar- 



